Okay, we’re going to get into the market again—at least, we will if E*Trade stops telling me “quotes unavailable” when I try to buy. I have a little money to put into my IRA. I’d be just as happy holding off, but Jon thinks we may have hit a bottom—he noted that housing starts are [...]
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March 2, 2009
Five lessons learned from the stock market collapse
Jon and I didn’t start thinking seriously about investing until after our wedding in October, 2007. You’ve probably heard that month mentioned a lot lately in the news, and it’s not because everyone’s excited about our 1.5 year anniversary. No, if you’ve heard a newscaster mention “October, 2007,” it was probably followed by the words, [...]
February 21, 2009
My Hail Mary pass
Well, it’s comfortable to know I’m not the only idiot out there still investing in the stock market. According to an article in today’s WSJ, the share prices of some tiny companies have been soaring for no reason at all. Investors, desperate to make some money, have been buying risky, small-cap stocks. “One, a money-losing Internet [...]
February 2, 2009
Am I a good stock picker?
Four times in my life I have thought: “That would be a good stock to buy.” And all of those times, it turned out I was right. The first time was when Chipotle went public. It was Jon’s idea; we were eating there often at the time, and he mentioned that he thought it would be [...]
January 3, 2009
My investments in 2008: a reckoning
I’ve been thinking about laying out an investment strategy for 2009. But first, I thought I’d review the performance of my IRA and 401(k) last year. The bottom line: I didn’t do nearly as terribly as I thought–my returns were roughly equal to those of the S&P 500. Still, there are things I should have done [...]
